Happy to say that a new scifi audiobook has launched – The Rocket is now live on YouTube! You can listen for free right here. Jeremiah and I hope you enjoy the story – sit back, relax, and enjoy! I’ll tell you a little more about what’s going on:
The Rocket is based on my original short story and it takes a lot of work to produce into an audiobook! Producing an audio book – from story to publishing onto a platform/YouTube – takes as much time as it does to write it. For example, The Rocket took me about 40 hours to write, re-write … it took me another 40 hours to produce into an audio book, not counting whatever time Jeremiah spent on audio work.
It feels great, even if it’s tiring, to make something cool. I want to focus on how the book will make readers feel, so I try to keep thinking about them as much as possible. My original motivation to tell stories is something I’ve talked about on the blog, so I’ll assume you’re asking about ‘motivation to make audio books.’ TL;DR – I like to make movies, too. Turning audio books into mini radio dramas with pictures is something that scratches a fun little itch for me. It’s this close to making movies, and so it brings me a lot of joy to cut video/audio/SFX together in Premiere.
So happy that a new scifi audiobook – The Rocket – is live on Youtube. Now it’s onto the next project – can’t wait to see how you enjoy this work.
Write on! 🙂
